Post Classical Era 600-1450
This religion spread rapidly along trade routes like the Silk Roads and Indian Ocean.
What is Islam?
The Columbian Exchange involved the transfer of these between the Old and New Worlds.
What are plants, animals, diseases, and people?
This revolution in France began in 1789 and challenged monarchy and aristocracy.
What is the French Revolution?
This war, fought from 1914 to 1918, ended with the Treaty of Versailles.
What is World War I?
This Portuguese explorer was the first European to reach India by sea.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
This empire connected Europe and Asia and controlled trade through Constantinople.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
This empire was founded by Babur in South Asia and is known for the Taj Mahal.
What is the Mughal Empire?
This economic system, emphasizing private ownership and profit, expanded during the Industrial Revolution.
What is capitalism?
This political ideology spread to China and the USSR during the 20th century.
What is communism?
This invention, originally from China and improved in Europe, allowed sailors to determine direction.
What is the magnetic compass?
These traders and raiders from Scandinavia influenced European and Russian development.
Who are the Vikings?
This European country led early maritime exploration, especially around Africa.
What is Portugal?
This rebellion in India was sparked by resentment of British rule and religious insensitivity.
What is the Sepoy Mutiny (or Rebellion)?
This Cold War crisis brought the U.S. and USSR to the brink of nuclear war in 1962.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This Spanish-sponsored Italian sailed west in 1492, aiming to reach Asia.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This major trade city in West Africa became a center for Islamic learning.
What is Timbuktu?
These people were at the bottom of Spanish colonial society, often of mixed ancestry.
Who are mestizos?
This document, written in 1848, called for workers of the world to unite.
What is The Communist Manifesto? Written by Karl Marx...
This South African leader was imprisoned for 27 years before becoming president.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
This ship type, developed by the Portuguese, featured lateen sails and was ideal for oceanic exploration.
What is a caravel?
This Chinese innovation helped fuel maritime exploration long before Europe.
What is the compass?
This global conflict, sometimes called the first "world war," began in 1756.
What is the Seven Years' War?
Japan's rapid modernization in the late 1800s is known as this.
What is the Meiji Restoration?
This 1994 event in Rwanda resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands in a few months.
What is the Rwandan Genocide?
This Dutch innovation allowed ships to travel faster and helped the Netherlands dominate global trade in the 1600s.
What is the fluyt (or fluit ship)?